Antiskid device.



A. E. CARLTON.

ANTISKID DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 20, IsIs.

LQSQ, 186, Patented OCI. 22, m18.

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ANSON ET CARLTON, OF IPATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

1 ANTIsKIn DEVICE.

To aZZ 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANsoN E. CARLTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the countyv of Passaic and State of NewpJersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Antiskid Devices, of which the following is a specification. v

vThis invention relates to anti-skid devices for wheels in' which chains or their equivalent are used asthe ground gripping. means. It is very desirable to arrange the chains obliquely of the tread of the wheel so as to reduce the vibration and also reduce the freedom of the chains and consequently their incidental noise and wear and tear on the Wheel as well as the parts of the device itself. To accomplish this in such' a way that the degree of obliqueness of the chains will be sulicient properly to serve the purpose and that the device may be used with wheels whose spokes are arranged very closely7 together I have provided an angular anchorage member having means on its arms whereby to attach the chain thereto and adapted to be secured to the inside face of the felly of the wheel so that one armextends across the same and the other relatively longitudinally thereof. This member is preferably constructed in a way calculated to render it secure andV make necessary the employment of the least number of screws or equivalent for. holding it in place.

In the drawing,

Figure l is a fragmentary side view of a wheel equipped with my anti-skid device;

Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the wheel, showing the device in place; and

F ig. 3 is a sectional view of a fragment of a wheel equipped with my device, looking toward the inside of the felly of the Wheel.

rIhe wooden felly of a spoked wheel is indicated at 4a,"its sectional rim at b,- and the rubber tire or tires at c. The device is applicable to any other type of spoked wheel than that shown.

The anchorage member consists of a suitable length of metal, preferably of greater width than thickness, of angular form. Its two arms 0l and e are of such length that the former will reach well across the widest of fellies of several widths while the latter arm has at least preferably about the same length asthe former.

A Speoioation of Letters Patent.

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Patented Aoet. 22, isis.

application med March 2o, 191s. seriai No. 223,526.

Near the angle there is a projection or ear f and at the free end of the arm e there is 'an 'inwardly projecting ear g in the adaptation herein illustrated; on the opposite sides of arm d are two other ears f g.

The free end of the arm d is bent out of the general plane of the anchorage member,

rebent and sharpened to as atl k, and then The bentout portion it and the ears 7" g f g are provided with suitable holes to receive the attaching screws as hereinafter explained.

At the free end of the arms d and e, respectively, are provided the hooks j and le. Bearing against-the ends of the hooks are the plate springs Z, preferably riveted to the anchorage member and extending longitudinally of the arms thereof.

m is the chain, the same having its end links engaged with the attaching means therefor aiorded by the hooks.

The device is secured in place preferably by lag-screws n, one entered through the hole in the end portion L and the others through the holes in the ears f g f g. Having positioned the anchorage member as shown best in Fig. 3, so that arm d extends transversely of the felly between two spokes and arm e relatively longitudinally of the felly, and having, as by a blow with a hammer, driven the spur z' into the wood of the felly, the screws n are Vdriven into the felly to hold the anchorage member in place. Much of the hold which the device obtains on the felly is obviously due to the engagement of the anchorage member, by means of its spur, with the felly.

The angular form of the anchorage member not only permits the device to be attached to wheels having their spokes very closely arrangedand yet obtain the desired obliqueness of the chain, but makes it possible to apply the device to fellies varying considerably 1n width; that is, the anchorage member may be secured to quite as good advantage in the position, for instance, in which it appears in dotted lines in Fig. 3, as in the full line position in said figure.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. In combination, with the felly of a wheel, an angular anchorage member secured to the inside face of the felly with one arm extending across and the other 'outwardly thereof end eteche at .i3e ends to seid meme.

2. n oomoizeeiiien, with the eliy oi2 e Wheel, en angular anchorage membe seoure to ehe inside fece o the eliy with one emi extending ecioss and the other iongitudioaiiy of said fece and having oheineteehing means on each erm, and e @hein extending e'ound the ely releiveiy oui:- Weriy theiee' endl aeibechec' e?, iis msv *eo seid memes, one am of seid membei' beeieg e side ieee the eiv.

leiiged egeinst Islee inside fece of ehe eliy Wiuth one extending across and the other 'iongitediiieily of seid fece end having chain-e'meehing means on eeeh ei'm, e chain extending eound the elly relatively out- Weicily thereof and etteehed et its ends to seid memes, one erm of seid member heving e Spui to engage in e side fece of the eiy, and means to secure seid member to she feiiy holding ehe spur engaged in. Seidl side eee.

in iesfireony whereof ei'ix my siglezore.

ANSN E. CARLTCL 

